Questions tagged [gpl]
GNU General Public License
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GPLv3 modifications without distribution
I'm curious about the boundaries of GPLv3.
I understand you can't distribute a binary of modified GPLv3-licensed code without releasing the source.
I would assume you can modify GPLv3-licensed code, ...
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What public evidence suggests that AWS violated the AGPL by deploying MongoDB?
A few years ago (2018), the software package MongoDB, freely available including source code, was relicensed. The original license was the infamous AGPL, which required anybody offering modified ...
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Use of gplv2 licensed code in server
Suppose that someone develops a web application, and found a piece of code that they would like to add to their server. But that code is licensed under the GPLv2 license. Does that mean that if they ...
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Who can publish GPLv4?
I was thinking about the or later part that is often used in licensing
software. When reading https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html, I've found
this:
The Free Software Foundation may publish ...
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Do I really have to Open Source my project?
I'm currently working on a software which uses another software under the GPL version 3 license:
https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaVersion/blob/dev/LICENSE
Now someone just came to me and said I have ...
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Licensing a code which imports other module
I made a discord bot using discord.py...and want to publish it in GitHub but what license do I publish it in? the discord.py is licensed under MIT and it states that "the distributors include the ...
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Propagation of GPLv3 licensed software
"0. Definitions" section of GPLv3 says that:
To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies.
Is it also included to "any kind of ...
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Does Fat Fritz 2 violate GPL?
Fat Fritz 2 is a chess engine recently published and sold by Chessbase. Release article. It uses the Stockfish binary, and replaces the NNUE in Stockfish with its own. Stockfish itself is licensed ...
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Does AGPL 3 requeired to give free services
I found the following lines about AGPL3 and I am not sure about the correct way to interpret it.
Does AGPL3 oblige me to give my cloud services that connected to the app for free or is it only the ...
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Selling WordPress themes [duplicate]
I was wondering if I can sell a WordPress theme which is built on top of those themes that comes with WordPress when it's downloaded
or download one for free, then modify it completely(I mean here, ...
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Can we use GPL3.0 software in our own software?
We're interested in a WordPress plugin available in the WordPress repository licensed with GPL3.0.
We'd like to make some modifications, and then use it for a commercial project.
Is this legal?
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Can I relicense GPL software I make even if there are contributors?
I am about to release an open-source library (it's a derivative, but the original is MIT licensed). I'm considering releasing under GPLv3, especially since my understanding is that as the copyright ...
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Could this interpretation of open source be compatible with GPL 2?
Supposing I made a fork of a project licensed under GPL 2 and made some modifications to it, could I then release source only by request, for only snapshots and not the stable build, without making ...
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Stolen code in a GPL repo
Quite an odd thing has happened. A software author as released a repo under GPL 3.0 license
But inside that repo is code that the author doesn't own in any way and has no license. Now when people fork ...
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Ownership of sites and smart contracts
If I am an owner of a site, I can place restrictions on its usage even if the site software is licensed under an open source license such as GPL or AGPL, right? Which law allows me to place such ...
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